Setting up Centos 6.4 and was wondering which way shall I go regarding file sharing. We have had a lot of issues in the past when AFP and SMB where enabled at the same time on the same server, so if you guys could give me some guidance or opinions it would be much appreciated.

For my part, I was more thinking of just sharing through smb as Apple is stepping away from AFP and have SMB2 coming with OS 10.9, let me now if you think it is the way to go. All the users in the office have Macs running from 10.7 to 10.9.2

I built a server running Centos 6.5 with Smb, I have about 11x mac 10.8.5 clients , 2macs 10.9.4 and 4 windows 7 with access.
I had calls from operators complaining of speed of transfers ,as part of my troubleshooting I decided to setup netatalk AFP 3.1.0 although I read afp was phasing out as the default protocol. I found the AFP to be much faster
I had a 15.74gb test folder with files transferring over smb and AFP and found the times of smb to average 7:30mins and AFP to be 4mins

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